Engineering has pretty much always been the art and science of "good enough". Anyone can make a bridge with infinite resources, but an engineer is who can make

Engineering has pretty much always been the art and science of "good enough". Anyone can make a bridge with infinite resources, but an engineer is who can make a bridge just good enough to not fall down within budget and spec. The challenge with software is the underlying "physics" of our world continue to get more powerful year over year (unlike real physics), so "good enough" ends up being sloppier and sloppier as time goes on, and for a lot of applications it doesn't matter. Of course, until that day where it turns out it does matter. Good developers I think can anticipate some of those cases, and great developers can pick the few that they can sink the time into getting Right (tm) (c) 2022, to get the most bang for their (time) bucks.